| Directed by | Peter Lord Nick Park |
|---|---|
| Produced by | Nick Park Peter Lord David Sproxton |
| Written by | Peter Lord Nick Park Karey Kirkpatrick |
| Starring | Mel Gibson Julia Sawalha Miranda Richardson Benjamin Whitrow Timothy Spall Phil Daniels Jane Horrocks Anthony Haygarth |
| Music by | Harry Gregson-Williams John Powell |
| Editing by | Mark Solomon |
| Studio | Aardman Animations Pathé Allied Filmmakers |
| Distributed by | Pathé (Europe) DreamWorks Pictures (USA) |
| Release date(s) | 23 June 2000 (United States) June 30, 2000 (United Kingdom) |
| Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $45,000,000 |
| Gross revenue | $224,834,564 |
Plot
The Tweedys run a chicken farm in Yorkshire, England, in the manner of a World War II POW camp. One chicken, Ginger, continually tries to get the chickens (including her best friends Babs {who loves knitting as her favorite hobby} and Bunty) to escape from the coop using various plans and contraband obtained through two rats, Nick and Fetcher. They sometimes involve going under the fence. However, Ginger is always caught by Mr. Tweedy and his dogs, and while she is kept in solitary confinement, she comes to realize their only hope of escape is to fly over the coop's fence.
Mrs. Tweedy, struggling to keep the farm financially viable on dwindling egg production, decides to convert the farm from egg production to chicken pies, and orders a giant pie-making machine. Mr. Tweedy believes the chickens are plotting a big escape, but Mrs. Tweedy dismisses the idea as paranoia and does so in a rude domineering manner. While the Tweedys await delivery, a Rhode Island Red rooster named Rocky Rhodes appears to "fly" into the coop, though damaging his wing on landing. While the other chickens fawn over him, Ginger convinces Rocky to help teach them how to fly.
Unable to admit that he cannot actually fly, Rocky plays for time by putting the chickens through seemingly-futile training exercises while he tends to his injured wing. At the same time, the Tweedys provide the chickens with more food in order to make them plumper for their pies. The pie-making machine soon arrives, and as Mr. Tweedy begins construction, Ginger realizes what Mrs. Tweedy's plan is, and that they have very limited time to escape. With the machine completed, Mr. Tweedy attempts to put Ginger through the machine, but she is saved by Rocky, and they are able to disable the machine, giving themselves some more time while Mr. Tweedy tends to its repair.
The next day, Ginger finds Rocky has fled, leaving behind a part of a poster that explains that he was a circus act, only "flying" over the land after being launched out of a cannon. Ginger and the other chickens lose hope of escape, cumulating in a huge brawl in the mud, until Ginger finds out that Fowler, the farm's aged rooster, was once an honorary member of the Royal Air Force. With Fowler's knowledge, and with the nervous and nerdy Mack's aeronautical engineering, they begin working hastily to create a flying machine. The machine would be pedal-powered by the chickens themselves, in secret from Mr. Tweedy, who has become suspect of the chickens' ingenuity. The craft is completed even as the repairs on the pie-making machine are completed. As Mr. Tweedy attempts to grab the chickens, he is restrained by the attacking chickens and 'hidden' under one of the coops.
The chickens quickly assemble their plane and attempt to take off, despite Mr. Tweedy's attempt to stop them. Mrs. Tweedy hears the commotion outside and arrives armed with a hatchet, attempting to halt the plan from flying by killing Rocky and Ginger. However, she is almost killed when the combined efforts of the craft, Rocky and Ginger knock her hatchet out of her hands and it lands within inches of her neck; she merely faints. Rocky and Ginger continue to enable the escape by righting the chicken's makeshift launching ramp (which Mr. Tweedy had knocked down earlier), succeed in doing so and grab onto a string of lights unceremoniously trailing from the craft. However, Mrs. Tweedy (recovered from her earlier shock) is able to grab onto the string of lights from the plane before it takes off. Ginger attempts to sever the bond to detach Mrs. Tweedy, for in addition to her threat, her weight is too much for the chickens to keep the plane airborne. She manages to trick Mrs. Tweedy into cutting the light string with her hatchet, just barely escaping death in the process. This causes Mrs. Tweedy to fall right into a vent on the pie-making machine; the machine explodes in a mushroom cloud of gravy, and destroys the Tweedy's barn, leaving just the door standing. Mr. Tweedy reminds his irate wife that he had warned her about the chickens, and then the door falls on top of her before she can react. Rocky, Ginger, and the other chickens celebrate as they fly off. At the end of the film, the chickens have found themselves a protected bird sanctuary to live in and raise their chicks, with Rocky and Ginger having become a couple. As the credits roll, Nick and Fetcher discuss the chicken and the egg theory.
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